you know what they say you either die reading the tech news
or you live long enough to see yourself reading celebrity gossip are you a
smoker i don't know anyway we're a long ways
off from that mobile world congress which was supposed to take place in
barcelona this week was cancelled but
that isn't stopping tech companies from getting the word out about their fancy
new phones vivo has unveiled a concept
phone called the apex 2020 and it's well
frankly it's a little much the phone has no buttons and no ports as it relies
entirely on its 60 watt wireless charging although that is something that
we have seen in the past in concept phones and the screen curves around the
edge even more than samsung's phones used to do
vivo also apparently figured out the whole embedding a camera under the
display fang and then the rear camera module not just the lens is actually
stabilized by an actual gimbal oh and it
has 7.5 x optical zoom which all sounds
amazing the problem is it's probably not a real phone
normally we'd be able to verify this depending on whether vivo had an actual
unit on the show floor but there is no show floor there's just the internet and
you really can't trust anything that you see there
except for us clearview ai the controversial facial
recognition company that scraped billions and billions and billions of
photos from online platforms recently admitted that their client list had been
stolen by hackers and now that list has
been leaked clearview said early on that their goal was to help law enforcement
catch criminals and that was apparently true agencies
around the world have allegedly worked with the company including the fbi the
rcmp up here in good old canada and then
i guess other ones that was it it's a list of two the issue
is the list of other companies uh there's more than 2 000 of them that are
not law enforcement at all we're talking retailers like macy's walmart banks like
wells fargo isps like at t verizon and
t-mobile casinos gyms cryptocurrency exchanges even the nba is the nba is
there anything they're not involved in at this point some of these companies
have come out and said that they only entered early talks with clearview but
didn't actually use their services but the whole thing is just obviously making
everyone a little bit uncomfortable the company is now facing calls for
regulation presumably from people who didn't know that if you upload a photo
of your face to the internet then of course everybody has it what that's the
whole idea this video everyone can watch it
and get ready for some swarms of rowdy environmentally friendly teens to ravage
european cities with dangerous driving thanks to citroen
what kind of lead-in is that just the company has launched the ami a small
two-seater electric car that doesn't require a license to what
to operate it you only have to be 14
years old in france or 16 in other european countries so kids can rent the
car for 20 euro or about 22 us dollars a
month with a two-year agreement what is this they'll also need an initial
payment of 2 900 so there'll probably be some parental co-signing involved there
but like what you can get it for 29 cents a
minute okay okay but hold on a second guys this might not be as crazy as it
sounds to me because it sounds pretty crazy to me i mean you can get a
learner's permit at 14 in alaska arkansas iowa michigan and a bunch of
other states but like at least you have to apply for the permit there
france is about to have a bunch of teens trained on gran turismo tearing up the
roads at a top speed of 28 miles an hour ah
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yes he is he's right there
the same thing that caused mobile world congress to get cancelled is also
causing other conferences to be canceled including facebook's f8 conference the
geneva motor show and while gdc is still
holding on for dear life it looks like it might be cancelled too as microsoft
unity cd projekt red epic games amazon sony ea facebook and kojima productions
have all announced that they're going to be sitting on the sidelines this time
around maybe gtc could just organize into like a giant lan party you mean
just like normal that would be sick normal multiplayer lg had a phone of their own
to show off in the wake of mobile world congress being cancelled the lg v60
thinq has 5g 8k video recording and a
bundled extra screen attachment making it sort of like microsoft's upcoming
surface duo but most importantly guys it also has a headphone jack
get out of here samsung shill the united states congress has approved
a bill that would see one billion dollars distributed to small internet
service providers to help them remove network gear that was manufactured by
companies that pose national security risks so
huawei and zte wait you mean we've been using huawei
equipment the whole time huh that but they've they already got all
our stuff yeah well they might as well just take the rest of this point don't
you think what's the point destiny 2 has seen the light and is removing paid loot
boxes full of mystery gear known in game as
bright engrams for players with a season pass the move follows similar ones made
by apex legends fortnite and rocket league although players without a season
pass can still buy the mystery boxes so there's really something for everyone
here to waste their money on you ever had a bright ingram and while the
european union may have put the whole universal charger thing on pause the
next target for mobile device regulation is removable batteries
really leaked documents suggest the eu is
working on legislation that would require all phone manufacturers to
include removable batteries as replacing
your battery instead of your smartphone is way more environmentally friendly
certainly not apple friendly though and apples are a key part of the environment
for the worms that live in them and i think we're clearly done here
thanks for tuning in guys come back monday for more news on prince harry and
meghan markle is he still prince harry i think so i
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yeah it's been all over the news here because they like moved in down the road
it's like who cares